Clip attachment for pocket-carried devices



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- A. u. NELSON CLIP ATTACHMENT FOR POCKET CARRIED DEVICES Filed May 25. 1922 fyfi lPatented Dec. 18, EQZSB.

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ALBERT U. NELSON, OF PORTLAND, OREGON.

CLIP ATTACHMENT FOR POCKET-CARRIED DEV TCES.

Application filed may 25, 1922. Serial 1T0. 563,578.

To all whom it may concern. a clip, altho it extends beyond the curved 'Be it known that T, ALBERT U. NnLsoN, portion 5, provides a bearing point by a citizen of the United States, and a resiwhich an opposite force can be applied at 40 .dent of Portland, county of Multnomah, and a? and thus lies flat a ainst the pen and does 5 State of Oregon, have invented a new and not catch to the clot in'g. It can be easily useful Improvement in Clip Attachments seen how the point a could be sharpened for Pocket-Carried Devices, of which the and be used to sharpen pencils, open letfollowinrr is a specification. ters or as an eraser and it is easily con- The 0 ject of my invention is to proceived that the clip could be used on a pen- 10 vide a novel combination with a fountain oil or any other article which is carried in pen clip of a roughened surface and a point- I a persons pocket. ed end which is adaptable to be used as a I claim: manicure file or otherwise. This and other A one iece clip attachment for a pocketobjects I have illustrated in the accompanycarried evice comprising a split annular in drawings, in which: body adapted to be aflixed on said device, iig. 1 is an elevation of a fountain pen an integral short arm projecting perpenwith my improved clip attached; dicularly. from one side of said body, an

Fig. 2 is a perspective view of my imintegral arm of substantial length projectproved clip; and ing perpendicularly from the opposite side 29 Fig. 3 is a view showing how my imof the body, the extremity of the latter arm proved clip may he slipped up on the founbeing tapered to narrow width, and being tain pen and ,used as a manicure file. curved back against the shank of said arm The construction of my device is as folin the form of a loop of substantial dilows: The clip is made with a flat porameter having a smooth rounded exterior 25 tion a and a curved portion 7) which is surface, the shanks of both arms lie subadapted to fit over and grasp the body of stantially in the same plane, whereby when a fountain pen. One end of the Hat porthe device provided with said clip is intion a is pointed as at 0 and the other is serted in the pocket said long arm of the curved under as at 5 so as to pinch the clip will ride on the surface of the pocket 30 pocket of the wearer and prevent him from material, and thusexert a leverage effect losing the pen. The outer surface of the tending to rock the clip longitudinally. fiat portion is roughened as at e and is which however is resisted by said short adaptable for use as a manicure file." arm bearing upon said device, and thus the 7 The utility of this device is evident when extremity of the long arm will be caused to 35 it is considered that few persons carry a exert a firm hold upon the pocket material manicure file and the great number who in bearing against said device. carry fountain pens. The point a of the ALBERT U. NELSON. 

